Mattress



L. .I. BENNETT.

MATTRESS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.26. 1990.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

gwvc/wtom Lewis JBermett/ WWW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- LEWIS J. BENNETT, F MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-THIRD TO GERSON SCHARFF AND ONE-THIRD TO DWIGHT M. ARMSTRONG, BOTH OF MEMPHIS,

TENNESSEE.

Application filed April 26,

. which the following'is a specification.

This invention relates to mattresses, and the method of making the same, and has for an object to provide a mattress with improved units, and method of producing a marginal boxing and securing the upper and lower cover-fabrics thereto.

Further object of the invention is@ to provide a mattress having a boxing, produced as a separate structure, properly stuffed and quilted and, attaching thereto the upper and lower cover-fabrics in an improved manner whereby the connecting seams offabric and boxing are obscured.

,With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain 'novel units, combinations and methods of making and combining units as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed. I

Referring. to the accompanying drawing which is made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, m

Figure 1 is a sectional view, transversely through the boxing, showing the upper and lower cover-fabric but with the stufling of the mattress omitted for the purpose of showing the construction and arrangement of arts. Y

ig. 2 is a detailsectional view'of the manner of attaching one of the cover-fabrics to the boxing, taken within circle 2 of The improved mattress, which, together with its method of making, forms the subject matter of this application, comprises a boxing consisting of spaced marginal rolls 1O and ll with ribs 12, 13 and 14 intervening. While the boxing has been shown provided with three of these ribs each separately designated by a numeral,

it is to be understood that the number of ribs is unimportant and no limitation to the present invention, and the number shown and the numerals employed, are exclusively for illustration and convenience of description.

The boxing 1s made of a single strip of MATTRESS.

1920. Serial N0. 376,566.

fabric, formed into a tube, stitched at 15 and, after being. stuifed in any appropriate manner, the rolls 10 and .11 and the intervening ribs are formed by stitchings 16, 1 7, 18 and 19, the number of rows of stitching, of course, determiningthe number of ribs. Irrespective of the number of ribs, the stitching 15 will determine the inside of the boxing so 'thatthe free edges, adjacent to which the stitching 15 is produced, will be within the mattress and obsoured.

The top fabric 20 and the bottom fabric 21 are now out to the proper shape and size and. are secured to the boxing by being stitched immediately against the proximate sides of the rolls l0 and 11, respectively. This stitching is accomplished by rows of stitching 22 and 23 adjacent to the rows of stitching 16 and 19, respectively. The free edges, one of which is shown at'24 in Fig. 2, are disposed within the mattress bod which, of course, necessitates the sewing o the top and bottom fabrics 20 and 21 to the boxing,

the fabrics and then turning the stitched-together organization. The openingfthrough which the casing is turned, is then employed for the introduction of the filling, by being blown in or otherwise introduced. The small opening is then sewed by hand, completing the uniting of the top and bottom fabrics with the boxing immediately under the edge roll, whereby the roll extends beyond the lines of the fabrics in both directions in the usual, well-known and desired manner. The mattress is, of course, completed in any usual and well-known manner, such as tufting or the like which, however,

forms no part ofthe .present invention and is not here disclosed.

Having thus fully described mysaid invention what I'claim ,as new' and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. The method of making a mattressconsisting in producing a tube from a single strip of'fabric, stufiing the tube, sewing with a plurality of'longitipdinal rows of stitchings producing ed e ro s and interve ing ribs and sewing t e top and bottom f bllCS to the boxing adjacent the proximate sides'of the edge rolls with the free edges of the boxing strip and the top and bottom fabrics within thehousing so constructed whereby the connecting seams of fabric and boxing are obscured.

2. The method of making a mattress consisting in producing a boxing by sewing togeth'er the edges of a single strip of fabric to produce a tube, stuffing the tube and sewing the stuffed tube with a plurality of rows of parallel stitchings producing edge rolls and intervening ribs and stitching top and bottom fabrics to the boxing adjacent the proximate sides of the rolls with the free edges of the boxing strip and of the top and bottom fabrics within the housing so constructed whereby the connecting seams of fabric and boxing are obscured.

3. A mattress comprising a boxing composed of a single piece of material stuffed and stitched to form spaced marginal rolls with intervening ribs, top and bottom fabrics secured to the boxing adjacent the stitching which defines the said marginal rolls from the said ribs to 'allowthe marginal rolls toentirely and freely extend above and below the top and bottom fabrics respectively.

4. A mattress comprising a boxing composed of a single piece of material stuffed fabrics secured to the boxing adjacent the stitching which defines the said marginal rolls from the said ribs to allow the marginal rolls to extend entirely and freely above and below the top and bottom fabrics respectively.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Memphis, Tennessee, this 2 rd day of April, A. D.'nineteen hundred and twenty.

" LEWIS J. BENNETT. [n s.]

\Vitnesses:

F. L. ALLEN, Tnos. H. W001). 

